It appears when I receive a free trial sign up for my classes, my customers are not able to opt into marketing and stopping them being accessible in my mailchimp database. Is there a way around this? How could I add the mail chimp opt in check box to my form?

I am running free classes for my soccer company. Because the classes have no cost it doe not call woocommerce to complete payment. Because it does not call woocommerce it doesnt offer the customer a chance to tick the opt in box. Because of this I can only add this customer as a stransactional audience member to my mail chimp audience. this is what mail chimp said

"ok, I see where the prior agent turned on our tool to watch incoming API calls.

here's what I see:

{
"email_type": "html",
"email_address": "[email protected]",
"status": "transactional",
"merge_fields": {
"FNAME": "John",
"LNAME": "Mailchimp"
}
}

Marcus - mailchimp support
got it.


That said, I should note that we do not manage this from within Mailchimp.

If the signup form is - for whatever reason capturing the emails as transactional - then the store will log them as such, and will inform Mailchimp of this.

Ultimately I suspect the proper answer to this question lies within some setting, or something, associated with the signup form that contacts are signing up through

the form that my colleague used/ or you did the signup for them, captured them as transactional and sent that to Mailchimp

we're only able to take the lead from WooCommerce"

the Transactional part needs to change to allow free class sign ups to be added as a full audience member